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Oct 23
8m 30s

This Nurse Murdered Her Patients - The E...

Ray William Johnson
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Elizabeth Wettlaufer is a Canadian former registered nurse who confessed to murdering eight elderly patients and attempting to kill six others between 2007 and 2016 in long-term care homes in southwestern Ontario.

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